Dr. Kath Kerr-Koch
BA MA PhD
Senior Lecturer
Location:
Priestman Building, City Campus
Phone: 0191 515 2160
Email:
kath.kerr@sunderland.ac.uk
Biography
Teaching Areas
Temporary Lecturer, Malaspina University College, Nanaimo British Columbia, Canada, 1989-1991; Visiting Lecturer, University of Wales College of Cardiff, 1991-1993; Visiting Lecturer, University of Delhi, 1998-2004; Lecturer, English Studies, University of Sunderland, 1993-1997; Senior Lecturer, University of Sunderland, 1997-present.Research Interests
Modern Critical and Cultural Theory (Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Paul de Man, Julia Kristeva, Noam Chomsky, Jurgen Habermas, Barbara Ehrenreich, Franz Fanon); British Romanticism (especially Shelley); British and European Literary History; Postcolonialism; World Literatures (especially Indian and African writers). Supervisor on several completed Ph.Ds, on topics such as the fictions of Amy Tan, Edmund White, and First Nations Literature. Holder of the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Innovative Teaching 2007.
Kathleen is the founder-member and Co-Director of the Northern Association for Postcolonial Studies (NAPS), a research collective working through Newcastle University and the University of Sunderland and advancing links in the area of post-colonial studies both regionally, and across Britain. NAPS has established a circuit of academics, creative writers and postgraduates working in post-colonial studies and cognate areas in academic institutions in the North of England and Scotland. In June 2007, NAPS sponsored a seminar at Newcastle University entitled 'Who's Afraid of World Literature(s)' with keynote speaker Professor Derek Attridge (York) and in December 2007 it held another seminar at the University of Sunderland called 'Trajectories of Indian Independence: 1857, 1947, 2007'. In 2010 a two day conference was held at the University of Sunderland called `Postcolonialism and Islam?. NAPS can be found at http://www.naps-online.org/
Selected Publications
Books
(forthcoming 2013) Romancing Fascism: Allegory and Modernity in Benjamin, Shelley and Paul de Man,
Edited books
(forthcoming 2012) Postcolonialism and Islam (with Geoff Nash and Sarah Hackett) London: Routledge
(forthcoming 2012) Time and History: Philosophical Resources for the Study of World Literature
Contributions to books
(forthcoming 2012) `Fanon's War and the Arab Spring: Postcolonialism and the Question of Violence'. In Kath Kerr-Koch, Geoff Nash and sarah Hackett (eds) Postcolonialism and Islam. London: Routledge.
2009. 'Autobiography as Critique'. In Rosy Singh (ed) Autobiography: Fact and Fiction: New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
'What is Modernity? Habermas and/or de Man', In Shaswati Mazumdar, Claudia Wenner and Sharmistha Lahiri (eds) Romanticism and Modernity: Conceptions of Art, Society and Politics in the Modern World New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
2006. 'Race, Nation and Ethnicity'. In Patricia Waugh (ed) The Theory and Practice of Literary Criticism: An Oxford Guide.Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2001. `Barbara Ehrenreich'. In Paul Hansom (ed) Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 246. Farmington Hills: The Gale Group.
Journal articles
2008. `Autobiography as Critique: de Man vs the Realists'. Germinal: Journal of the Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, Volume 7/2008.
2006. 'What is Modernity?' Germinal: Journal of the Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, Volume 4/2006.
